We often refer to doubling up of joists or other structural framing as “sistering.” Reinforcing the floor joists is best done by doubling them up. Doubling joists is recommended under walls ...

During the Suffolk City Council work session, Director of Capital Projects Gary Jones provided an update on the Planters Club, a 100-year-old rental facility that has been closed for about a year due ...

But farm buildings can be designed to stand up to it all.

Apartments and commercial space in Courtyard 40, a renovated historic downtown Elgin building, are ready for leasing.

A focus on quality and maintaining a strict 35.5-month schedule pushed the joint venture contractor on the Gaylord Pacific ...

“The original design had open web steel joists ... reinforcing deck systems from Atlas. On the majority of the tower, crews installed column-mounted flyer tables, which eliminated the need for ...

“All of the first-floor ceilings had to come down in order to identify cracked joists and other areas that needed reinforcement.” The couple also needed to raise the main staircase and add ...

Crumb rubber from recycled car and truck tires contains oil, phthalates and solvents, which are petroleum-based and contain heavy metals, reinforcing ... especially if joists are boxed for the ...

In doing so, it will reinforce Japan’s role in the “first island chain”, which stretches from Okinawa through to Taiwan and the Philippines. The chain is part of a US containment strategy to ...

outh Korea's economy unexpectedly contracted in the first quarter as exports and consumption stalled amid fears over the impact of Washington's aggressive tariffs, fanning expectations of more ...